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Matty Gore
Tags: "Despondency Corrected", 1839, 1840, bible, brothers, Buffalo, conversion, correspondence, daughters, Death, duty, Faith, farming, fathers, filial obedience, forgiveness, Frances Wright, frontier, God, housekeeping, illness, independence, lectures, letters, living in sin, Lydia Howard Sigourney, marriage, New York City, newspapers, parenthood, railroad, religion, robbery, suicide, The Religious Souvenir, William Wordsworth, women's rights
The Deformed Boy
Tags: 1840, 4th of July, abandonment, Aeolus, Aladdin's lamp, almshouse, Apollo, benevolence, Benjamin Franklin, boyhood, charity, Christianity, Consumption, Cotton Mather, deathbed, deformity, fairy, Fortunatus' cap, funeral, gender roles, girls-work, God, gratitude, H. Gally Knight, Honesty, Independence Day, intemperance, juvenile literature, knitting, laudanum, literacy, Magnalia Christi Americana, marriage, Midas, Mothers, orphans, Ovid, philosopher's stone, poverty, prayer, Proverbs 30:24, Psalm 103, public assistance, public education, rickets, self reliance, sewing, shame, shopkeeper, sons, star-spangled banner, Stories for Young Persons, tears, virtue, widows